SNOWMAN BEDDING and COMFORTER SETS

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Take the nip right out of winter and kick Jack Frost to the curb with snuggly snowman bedding. A cute snowman comforter set or snowman flannel sheets will make your bed even more inviting after a long day playing in the snow.

Tweens and teenage girls who may consider holly green and berry red comforters with Santa Claus and his reindeer galloping across the top too immature for their taste. But snowmen are ageless in their appeal and the blustery sky blue and white backgrounds really make their black top hats, neck scarves and carrot noses pop!

Snowman bedding gives testimony that all snowflakes have to be cold nor must they melt when you bring them inside the family home. For moms who like for all rooms in their house to be decorated for the holidays, we would like to recommend that you set one bedroom aside for Christmas snowman bedding. Or if your teen prefers; snow girls.

DECORATING IDEAS

The comforter or quilt set will set the tone, but I don’t recommend that you leave it to shoulder the load of the holiday bedroom decor all alone. Mr. and Mrs. Frosty the Snowman may need a little assistance in bringing true Christmas spirit into your daughter’s room.


There’s no need to rush out and buy expensive decorations. A snowman glitter lamp and a bedside snowman rug to keep the chilly floor from giving her rosy toes frostbite on cold, winter mornings will do the trick.

If your teenage girls are lucky enough to have an adjoining bathroom, pinch a few collectible snowman figurines from your stash of ornaments to coordinate the bath with your snowman bedding set. Color coordination shouldn’t be a problem. After all how difficult can it be when the primary color in your snowman bedding and comforter set is snowy white?

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ORIENTAL DRAGON BEDDING for your BEDROOM DECOR

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Whether you prefer your
dragon bedding
sets to be of the fire breathing sort or to be more elegant and understated, there is no way to deny that comforters with pictures of dragons, oriental symbols and medieval motifs are one of the most dramatic styles of bedding on the market today.

Popular colors can range from emerald green, black and gold to a more warm color palette of Chinese red and ebony black with metallic gold accents painted on the fabric. Dragon bedding in medieval baby nursery themes might take a more pastel and fanciful approach taken out of the pages of a storybook devoted to the rescue of royal damsels in distress rather than scary flying lizards in ominous, twisting poses.

Many decorators consider dragon bedding to be Asian personified. However, I have a different opinion in that it is my belief that the two styles can be combined for a unique look or each can successfully stand separately without relying on the other for support.

It is true that many dragons appear to be oriental in origin, but there are others that appear to be more Western in origin. Teenage girls and boys who are fans of popular video games prefer their dragons to breathe colorful flames out of their flaring nostrils and want their bedding sets and dragon art posters to follow suit and reflect the colors and designs that are displayed across the wide expanse that forms the top of their dragon comforter sets or duvet covers.

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SURF MURALS, WALL DECALS and ART

If you are in the market for colorful, fun and invigorating wall art with a modern look, a surf mural might be what you need. Scenic ocean views of surfers riding the waves on their colorful surfboards can transform any living area from everyday humdrum to high fashion that’s cheap and incredibly easy to install.

SURF MURAL SIZE

There are times when big is better. Modern styles of surf bedroom and den decor favor the crisp, clean look that a large sofa length surf wall mural presents. Contemporary homes by definition are decorated in a sleek and clutter free fashion. The wall hangings, art and furnishing may be sparse. But each piece is selected to make a big decorative statement. Large pieces of artwork fall right in line as rarely is more than one necessary and the decorative impact is huge.

PRICE

Surf murals with bold graphics with bright colors don’t come at a cheap price.
However, the fact that one piece of artwork will be all that is required should be factored in to your decision making process. Plus, no frame is required for most surf murals especially wallpaper murals that come pre-pasted and ready to mount directly on the wall. I find it disturbing that home owners reject the decorative benefits of wallpaper murals based on price without making the proper considerations and bottom line comparisons.

There are two common reasons( neither of which are valid) that my clients have given for rejecting big murals. I’m going to list them for you here so that you don’t make the same mistakes when buying surfing wall art for your decorating project. One reason is that the initial price seems expensive. The other is that they feel that artwork of that size may be difficult if not impossible for an amateur to mount properly on the wall. Do not let either of these opinions steer you away from purchasing a striking surf mural if your room calls for one.


DIFFERENT STYLES

There are large surf wall murals that work beautifully as a focal point behind the living room sofa. Then there is another, more mobile and versatile style of surf wall art; surf wall stickers and decals. These clever, vinyl cutouts allow you to exercise your own creative decorating ideas where full wall murals will not. You can arrange and rearrange the wall decals with Hawaiian designs, surf boards, palm trees and surfing quotes to your heart’s content. When your teenage girl tires of her surf mural, surf bedding set and bedroom decor, you have the option of relocating your reusable stickers to the bathroom or even to use as part of your decorations in a surf nursery room design for baby.

For surfers who love to live their hobby, surf wall murals are an excellent place to start.

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CHRISTMAS BEDDING SETS - HOLIDAY DESIGN COMFORTERS

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When the nights cool I have to fight urges to make the bed with Christmas bedding. It’s so hard to wait until Thanksgiving has passed to dress up the bedrooms in holiday finery. I have never understood why decorations for this special time of the year are restricted to living rooms, dens and dining room tables.

PINK and GREEN CHRISTMAS BEDDING

Holiday bedding for teenage girls (and boys if you can bully them or catch them when they aren’t paying attention) is especially appreciated as girls in their early teens and preteen years love to hang out with their friends in their bedrooms even when the television screen in the den is bigger. Christmas comforter sets with pretty pink poinsettias will blend beautifully in a room where the color scheme of the bedroom is predominately pink. Simply fold your pink and green bedding sets and replace it with pink Christmas design bedding for the holiday season.

TRADITIONAL COLORS

There are those among us who prefer the traditional colors of holly green and berry red over more modern and contemporary colors. Some bedrooms may have to undergo what I call a mini-makeover to accept Christmas bedding in these colors. If money is no object, by all means work your way through the fancy decorating ideas laid out in the Christmas edition of your favorite home decorating magazine. For those of us who have to enjoy the spirit of the holiday season on the cheap, camouflage the upholstery of your bedroom furniture with Santa Claus throw blankets, replace your everyday window treatments and replace them with inexpensive white lace curtain panels and throw a braided rug over the wall to wall carpet if you feel that the colors will clash.

MODERN CHRISTMAS BEDDING COLORS

Pink and green nor red and green are the only holiday colors combinations in Christmas bedding sets at your disposal. Some of the most luxurious, festive fabrics with Christmas designs are deep purple and navy blue with metallic silver or gold accents.

For a contemporary look pick up a silver and midnight blue comforter set shot with silver threads and decorate the rest of the bedroom with crystal icicles, snowflakes and silver beads.

If a warmer style of Christmas decor is preferred, purple or garnet jewel tones with shiny gold metallic decorations will cast a glow over the bedroom that is so welcoming that you will want to keep it in place well into spring of the next year.

INEXPENSIVE

For those who refuse to use the same comforter set two years running, the answer may be teenage girls clearance Christmas bedding and comforter sets. King, queen and full size holiday bedding sets go for pennies on the dollar after the holidays. Start shopping for next year at the day after Christmas sales and get a delicious deep discount price.

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SURF BEDDING and DECORATING TIPS - BEACH READY SURFING BEDROOM DECOR

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Surf bedding is a cool gift any time of year for teenage girls or boys who can’t wait to hit the beach. Comforters and pillow shams covered in tropical prints with silhouettes of surfers carrying their surfboards towards the tiki hut at sundown after a long day of surfing the waves with their friends is sure to please your resident beach babe or surfer dude.

Is bedding sewn with surfboard print fabrics the only way to go? Young girls who are lucky enough to have their mom or dad’s collection of vintage surfboards may find themselves overloaded with an overabundance of boards if their surf bedding set has a large colorful surfboard print. The answer to this decorating dilemma is to find a duvet cover or comforter with a tropical print that will pull the surf decor together.

Consider:

• Hawaiian print bedding sets – volcanoes and island views with a vintage or retro style fabric
• Palm trees – Picture the beach on your favorite island surrounded by swaying palms
• Flip Flops – A funky flip flop print would be fun!
• Hibiscus flowers and tropical foliage

DESIGNERS


The popularity of surf bedding has not escaped the notice of top designers. Tommy Hilfiger as well as Pottery Barn offer surfing children’s bedding in a surf theme that will be right at home with your seashell collection. Pottery Barn Kids Aloha’s surfing quilt is in fact an excellent example of the decorating ideas that we suggested to you in the previous paragraph. If you examine one, you will see that it is actually little more than a log cabin style quilt in a coordinating color scheme that compliments the pink and white vintage palm tree print of the sheet and comforter set as well as the multi-colored floral accent pillows. The pillow shams repeat the pattern of the quilt in this particular set of cute girl’s surf bedding. The Tommy Hilfiger Surf’s Up collection, on the other hand, has what I would call a true surf board quilt covered in a bold print of surfboards in primary colors that could be used in a boy’s room as well as a girl’s bedroom.


COLORS

Moms who are having trouble letting go of their little girl’s feminine pink and white bedroom may find that this bed in a bag set will convince her tween or pre-teen to compromise. Mom gets to keep her little girl in pretty pink for a few more years and the little lady gets a cool set of surf theme bedding.

DISCOUNT SURF BEDDING AND DECOR

I am aware of decorators who have helped homeowners to successfully make the transition from surf theme baby nursery room decor and crib bedding sets to big girl surf bedding without a major bedroom makeover. If your little girl started out with surfboard or surf bedding and bedroom decor, chances are that you will be able to recycle most of your wall art, floor coverings and decorative accessories. This translates into money in your pocket, a stylish bedroom that you decorated for a cheap price and perhaps an island vacation in the near future.

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MOTORCYCLE BEDDING

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Summer may be over and the temperatures cooling down, but
motorcycle bedding
is warming its engines and getting ready to roll.
Take your pick of Harley Davidson comforters with the official logo embellished with lots of cool flames flicking at the wings of the eagle that bikers recognize as a sign of quality in the realm of motorsports.

Harley home decor helps motorcycle buffs that are temporarily displaced from the roads to transition from days spent with the wind in their hair to a few months indoors. You might ask what this has to do with teenage girls as most riding enthusiasts left their high school (either by invitation of the principal or personal desire) many years ago.

Ever since “Rebel Without a Cause” hit the theaters a few decades ago teenage girls as well as boys have associated leather biker jackets and boots with rebellion tempered with a healthy dose of romance. Lives as well as bedroom decorating styles have been influenced (some say in a negative way, but so what) in the years that have followed. James Dean may have met his maker recklessly driving a rare silver Porsche 550 Spyder sports car.


James is reported to have owned a 500cc Norton motorcycle, an Indian 500, some kind of Italian Lancia scooter and a British Triumph T-110 in addition to a Harley Davidson, but I have to believe that when tweens decorate their bedrooms with Harley Davidson motorcycle bedding, bed in a bag and comforter sets it’s because they picture James Dean in their dreams and he’s riding a Hawg.

Even if they have never heard of this movie, kids’ motorcycle bedding is flying off the shelves. The popularity of motocross racing and dirt bikes as a hobby is to the children what Harleys are to adults. Parents are going along for the ride, because of the availability of cute, decorative accessories like rugs, wall hangings and even light fixtures that make decorating this style a quick and easy project.

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Neil Gaiman at the Vegas Valley Book Festival

Neil Gaiman was slated as the opening keynote speaker for the Vegas Valley Book Festival this year and this Las Vegan jumped for freaking joy over it! I’ve been reading Neil since discovering his Sandman comics when I was 15 and I have always loved the entire fantasy world he has created with his work for adults and children. I’ve also been reading his online blog for years which is a tricky thing because reading about his travels and life and work and thoughts and processes on a daily basis makes me feel as if I know him, like we are friends, and well. . .I don’t know him and we’re not friends. Could he live up to the expectations I have in my head? Will he be as cool as I think he is or will he be a prick? I’m so very pleased to report that he is the former.

I took the entire day off work on Thursday and at 1pm at the newly renovated, historic Fifth Street School downtown Neil was doing a book signing. It was added last minute so there was hardly any advertising. In fact I only learned about it because he posted a notice about it on his blog two days before. So thanks to the little to no adverts, there was hardly anyone there! Awesome for the 50 or so of us that did make it and awesome for Neil because he was able to spend real time with each person and chat and doodle in their books and all in all be a spectacular guy. You were only allowed to bring one book from home for him to sign and the rest you had to purchase on site from the stupid Barnes & Noble table. These were not his rules, but the venue’s rules and I get it, they need to make money in order to continue putting on this great festival, so ok. Luckily I hadn’t yet purchased Neil’s new YA novel, The Graveyard Book, so I knew I would just buy it there. But what from my own Gaiman collection would I bring? I was torn between my first edition copy of American Gods, my advanced reader’s copy of Stardust, and Absolute Sandman Vol. 1. I eventually decided on the American Gods because the Stardust is paperback and kind of beat up and the Absolute Sandman Vol. 1 is HUGE and weighs about 30 lbs and I didn’t want to lug it around.

I ended up buying more than The Graveyard Book at the signing because when I saw that they had copies of all his work I realized this would be a wonderful Christmas present buying opportunity. So I bought two copies of The Graveyard Book, one for me and one for my 13-year-old niece, Kylie, and then I bought two of his picture books for children: The Dangerous Alphabet and The Wolves in the Walls for my nearly 3-year-old niece, Hailey. Perfect!

I was about the tenth person in line and when I approached Neil at his table and lay my five books down for him he greeted me with a lovely, “Hello, how are you?” and I stifled a giddy, girlish giggle and said "fine" and mentioned that I noticed he had blogged at 1am and I hoped he had gotten some sleep. He responded with a rather long story about flying and time changes and knowing people in Vegas that he has to greet upon arrival and some other things, but I was so dumbfounded that I was having a little chat with Neil Gaiman that it didn’t entirely register. It was also quite charming, but very disconcerting, that the entire time he was talking he was looking me directly in the eye!! He was very deliberately making a connection with me, his goofy, giddy fan, and I must say that I admire him so much for it! Then he went back to signing my books, but not only was he signing his name, he was doodling pictures in them! It was pretty amazing. Next he told me that great chunks of American Gods was written in a hotel room in Las Vegas and then started going on about how hotel rooms then could still be found fairly cheaply and he rarely writes at home, he likes to travel to random places and write and again, I am dumbstruck as Neil freaking Gaiman talks and talks to me! He then finished his doodling in my books, posed for a picture with me, cheerfully said “See you tonight at the talk!” and it was over. Uh-may-zing. Here’s what he said about the signing on his blog, “Just did a lovely signing - only about fifty people altogether, which meant that I got to talk to everyone and draw in their books, admire their tattoos and so forth. Really pleasant.”

There were many more people at the keynote address that night. The theater at the main branch of the Clark County Library only seats 399 people so they were handing out wristbands at 6pm for the 7pm talk. I got there about 4:45pm and was about the 40th person in line. My friend Cameron met me and we got seats right up close Neil came out and was funny and personable and eloquent and charming. He spoke about imagination and writing and how he stole all his great book ideas from his children. He read from chapter seven of The Graveyard Book, he read his poem The Day the Saucers Came and then he surprised us by reading two yet to be published children’s books, Crazy Hair, which was riotously hilarious, and Blueberry Girl which was written for Tori Amos’ (then) unborn daughter at Tori’s request and is touching and sweet. He spoke for over two hours but I can’t possibly relate all that he said because my memory is not that good and his humor wouldn’t come out right in my telling of it. I will try to retell one story because it was Vegas related and terribly funny. Here goes. When he was locked in that Vegas hotel room writing American Gods (which he had already mentioned to me earlier in the day, squeee ) he needed to quote something from Song of Solomon, and to his delight realized that he was in a hotel room and they may have a bible in the bedside drawer as hotel rooms are wont to do. He went to the bedside table and lo and behold there is a bible To his utter horror however he finds that the bible is defective. It’s pages are stuck together and it won’t open. So he does what any hotel patron does when something in their room is defective: he calls housekeeping to ask them to bring him a new one. When he opens the door minutes later to the housekeeping’s knock, he discovers four people standing staring at him, one housekeeper, and three others come to bear witness to the only man in human history to ask hotel staff for a replacement bible in their hotel room What kind of Holy man could this be? The housekeeper handed the bible to him gently, as anyone would hand a bible to a Holy man, and Neil graciously took it as Holyily as he could so as not to disappoint them. He sat down ready with his newly, not defective bible to look up the passage he needed for his novel only to discover, DRAT, that it was a newer version and he needed the King James’ version which the defective bible had been. But he didn’t have the heart to call again to housekeeping.

So that’s the story. I know it doesn’t read as funnily as it was told to the room by Gaiman himself, but I did my best.

And because I am an awful braggart and am still so happy from my Day of Gaiman, I’m including pictures from the day and of his wonderful doodle-icious signatures in my books:



Me and Neil:


Neil signing my books with his own special pen:


My copy of The Graveyard Book:


Kylie's copy for her birthday (which is today) that Neil inscribed for her especially:


The Dangerous Alphabet for Hailey:


The Wolves in the Walls with a special message for Hailey:


And my first edition American Gods:


Now here are some pictures from his talk, no flashes allowed in the theater, but I still got some good ones!









This one (a smile!) is my favorite:

DECORATING WITH ASIAN COMFORTERS in BLACK AND WHITE to AVOID CLASHING

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Asian comforters are now seen on the market in every color in the rainbow from purple to pink. If the Oriental symbols were missing, it would be very hard to tell they were Asian inspired at all!

Traditionally we have seen them in Chinese red, black and gold with occasional fire breathing dragon designs that might call for the use of some emerald green in the color scheme. For those that are not into a broad range of colors in their bedroom or that might have difficulties blending their existing palette with colorful bedding sets, there are monochromatic black and white Asian bedding sets with Asian comforters that might fit right in without having a major decorating challenge on your hands.



The black and white print fabrics will look fantastic with any number of bold colors that will break away from the classic style in a big way that teenage girls will adore. Purple, hot pink, bright yellow or even orange in a combination with Asian comforters and bedding sets in black and white will give the Oriental style of decor a modern look. Teens and tweens love to feel that they are capable of rebelling and giving old fashioned looks that may be mom’s favorite a kick in the pants.

Decorating bedrooms for teenage girls often requires compromise. At times the compromises may be more than a mother is comfortable with and may require all of the negotiating techniques she can muster. I would make the suggestion that if you and your darling daughter are butting heads over an acceptable bedroom theme, perhaps you could make the concession to allow her to do something funky and unusual with the accent colors. If you bend a little, she may be okay with your idea of using the best
Asian comforters
that are in an affordable price range.

WALL PAINT

If you get your way with the Asian style bedding; let her pick the wall paint color. If the color that she selects is too weird to swallow, get ready to make another compromise. See if it would be acceptable to paint three of the walls in a neutral color that you can tolerate and paint the fourth wall in the color that she loves. Never balk outright. Perhaps the worst possible reaction would be to criticize or seem shocked at her lack of good taste. It would be much more to your advantage to reassure her that her Asian decorating ideas are good but that too much of a good thing waters down the desired effect.

FURNITURE

This is where you begin to see the wisdom in choosing Asian comforters. Even the most basic, boring wooden dresser becomes fabulous and fits well in this bedroom design after being sanded down and painted with black enamel paint. Add some Oriental drawer pulls to your now Oriental style high chest of drawers and dresser and you have just saved a ton of money yet managed to get an expensive look with an inexpensive Asian comforter and a little bit of diplomacy and decorative skill.

EASY ORIENTAL PLATFORM BED

To bring the bed in line with the rest of your Oriental bedroom decor, you can have a carpenter make a wooden platform that is little more than a box to serve as inexpensive bed frames. You can have a custom made Oriental platform bed made to fit your mattress from twin to king size ready in a day for an extremely cheap price compared to buying one of the fancy tiered beds in a furniture store.

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